... Because Death is such a Casual Thing., ... Options

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Death jokes have really never bothered me before. I mean, people say them all the time. Someone goes "Hey, where's Bob?" and somebody else goes "Oh, he died" and you laugh it off because you know he didn't really die. Just little light stuff like that seems to come out so casually, that when something serious happens... you either belittle it or treat it like a joke.

Apparently, one of my teachers died over the summer while he was on his honeymoon. In class, I noticed I haven't seen him around, so I was like "Hey, where is he?" And my friend was like "Oh, he died." And I didn't say anything because I thought he was kidding.

It turned out that he wasn't, but the way he said it was like the death jokes people make every single day.

I guess I'm being overly emotional right now because my teacher's death was shocking and incredibly sad.

But, sometimes,... I think people should really learn to think before they speak and stop making serious issues into something to laugh about. Because it's not funny. At all.






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Okay, I get Black Humor. And I actually understand society's need for it, because it bluntly shoves in our face the actuality of what direction the world is going.

But it's different when it's personal. Like, people joke about war all the time and there are lots of parodies of death, murder, suicide, whatnot... and it's all fine and good, mainly because it never really hits close to home. Sometimes, it even helps us put things into perspective.

But nobody ever thinks about the people who are closely affected by things like this. It's not as funny when these things happen to you, personally.